Snowflake taps C3 AI to bring AI dev tools and apps to customers

C3 AI and Snowflake are partnering to give Snowflake customers access to C3 AI's development tools and enterprise applications, including AI-driven CRM, predictive maintenance, supply network optimization, and fraud detection apps, the companies announced. Billed as a way to "deliver next-generation enterprise AI applications at scale," the partnership will make C3 AI's suite of Integrated Development Studio (IDS) tools -- including C3 AI Data Studio, C3 AI ML Studio, C3 AI App Studio, C3 AI DevSecOps Studio, and C3 AI Marketplace -- available to Snowflake users. Customers using Snowflake's cloud-based data warehousing platform will also get access to C3 AI's AI Suite of operational and security apps based on the C3 AI model-driven architecture. Services provided by those apps include data persistence, batch and stream processing, time-series normalization, auto-scaling, data encryption, attribute and role-based access control, and AI/ML services. "The C3 AI Suite and C3 AI's prebuilt enterprise-grade models significantly speed and simplify the development of enterprise AI applications. As our customers deploy enterprise AI applications at scale, integration with C3 AI to Snowpark will accelerate the development and deployment of complex AI and machine learning use cases," Snowflake senior vice president Christian Kleinerman said in a statement.